Peter Doig: House of Music at Serpentine
'Peter Doig’s paintings are thickly rendered, heady and emotional. They conjure a wild dreamscape that evades the visual clarity of digital image making, revelling in the transformative, imaginative power of paint.'
Does making art require suffering?
'In our culture of hyper-visibility and competition that is reinforced through digital technologies, it has never been so easy to launch an artistic career – or to ‘put oneself out there’ – nor to become quickly discouraged in the race for success.'
Assemble Make Folklore
"You can’t decide whether to fear being roasted alive inside it — sacrificed by fire to someone else’s obscure gods, like Edward Woodward in The Wicker Man (1973) — or to duck beneath its belly during a rain shower, into the safety of a den. The ambiguity is essential."
'In our anachronistic age, youth is the highest currency. And, just as the rich dodge tax, so too are they able to dodge mortality – the outward signs of it, at least.'